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Shake a Leg  

The open source Samba service can act as an Active Directory domain controller in a heterogeneous environment.

Heat Seeker  

Sensor tools can provide highly variable data from CPUs, GPUs, and a variety of sources. We look at some tools to verify the temperature of components on diverse hardware.

Health Check  

NetTools utilities extract information from Active Directory to help admins simplify troubleshooting and administration.

Genealogy  

Versioning is a recommended approach to back up files as protection against hardware failures and user errors. To create versioned backups, you can use established backup programs or an open source tool that originates from the developer world: Git.

Hangover  

The unprecedented hype surrounding OpenStack 10 years ago changed to disillusionment, which has nevertheless had a positive effect: OpenStack is still evolving and is now mainly deployed where it actually makes sense to do so.

Keep It Simple  

Age and Rage are the Go and Rust implementations of a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool.

Welcome  

Just because it's new, doesn't mean it's better. How I learned to stop worrying and love the old containers.

Guard Duty  

Operators of an OpenStack environment need to know whether the environment is working and quickly pinpoint problems. We look at the basics of OpenStack observability in the Sovereign Cloud Stack.

Silverware  

Declustered RAID decreases resilvering times, restoring a pool to full redundancy in a fraction of the time over the traditional RAIDz. We look at OpenZFS, the first freely distributed open source solution to offer a parity declustered RAID feature.

Curb Complexity  

As the major Linux distributors increasingly lean toward containers, many administrators have come to realize that containers are by no means a panacea for all their problems.
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